I just had my XP machine at work rebuilt and the first thing I went to install was cygwin. I went with a complete "everything" install. The problem is the same one I've seen before. When the install is complete I run the shortcut to start cygwin and get a vague message that makes me think the install didn't "go so well".
The work around is easy. I edit /etc/passwd in notepad and change what cygwin uses for $HOME from /cygdrive/h to /home/erikweibust. /home/erikweibust was not created as part of the install. I think I've had it created before on other machines on the "first use" of cygwin. I'm not sure why I get this problem. Is cygwin trying to use some XP env vars on it's first start? Thanks, Erik ===== Erik Weibust http://erik.weibust.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
